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Baron hunter melee tank Percy
This build is primarily centered around turning Percy Fawcett into a melee tank that relies on starving with Fear and Hunger to boost melee damage. The perks and cybernetics alone will work well enough, but for the best performance you will need to delve into clone upgrading.
Important note, this build uses some implants taken from Bramfaturas and has a high Quasimorphosis rate. You WILL be constantly fighting Barons even during normal missions.
You CAN remove those implants if you wish, they are useful but not critical.
Clone upgrades:
Satiety limit around six times to 4200 does the trick.
Strike accuracy five times to 60% is a good baseline to remain accurate most of the time.
OPTIONAL - you may consider upgrading the health and pain threshold a few times, those do pay off fairly well especially since you WILL be tanking more than dodging.
Any other upgrades, including going above the recommended numbers, is up to you. Nothing wrong with taking them even further up if you have the resources to spare. My Percy sat for a long time on 25 upgrades (4200 satiety, 60% melee accuracy, 206 health, 20 pain, 45% ranged accuracy) and could kick in the teeth of anyone, including Barons in Bramfaturas.
Naturally you are meant to supplement this build with proper armor. Default armors without upgrading work very well but of course you will have to think about what types of damage you are likely to encounter and equip yourself properly. Naturally all bets are off once upgrading your gear comes into play as we all know that it very easily goes into overpowered territory (looking at you single shot rocket launchers with 100+ ammo capacity).
As for weapons, I recommend the Reaper quasimorphic sword as it can swap between pierce and laceration. Useful for caving in the skulls of Duggur enemies as they are fully immune to laceration but not pierce. You can use something else of course, though weapons centered around amputation are the best here as you get a steady supply of Gavvakh and other goodies from any Quasimorphs you maul like a wild dog.
Keep in mind, I am not some build guru, I am just sharing what works for me. Though I admit, a nearly immovable blender mowing down any enemies in their path can get a bit boring after some time. Especially if most interesting enemies blow up into generic Quasimorphs all the time.
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Percy has a fairly good array of starting attributes, plus the fact that you do not need to use up a clone modification point by changing anyone else's perk to the one he has. Someone will most likely be able to bring up a clone with a better fit for this, but for me Percy worked perfectly.
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The resists and slight melee damage buffs are of benefit to the build so they are here to stay.
Perks · showing Legend rank
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This one is relatively least important in the build. Do not misunderstand, it is still dodge and that is valuable, but it is not a critical element of the build and was just a "good enough" replacement for Possession (it does not bring too much benefit with the pact we are using here) since there are not that many interesting fully passive perks, and activated perks rely on using your satiety which is a bit of an issue if we are to run around completely starving all the time.
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Elemental resists, obvious pick here.
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Physical resists with a bonus to armor durability, obvious pick here.
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Important for the build, it relies on boosting melee damage from starvation on upgraded max capacity of the satiety attribute.
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Benefiting from Quasimorphosis phases is a pretty big deal, especially since this build cranks up the Quasimorphosis meter rate quite high up to where Baron encounters are not just a risk but an inevitability that arrives multiple times per mission.
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The build does rely on many implants so this perk is an obvious pick.
Pact
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You use this when you decide that you need to stack up Fear and Hunger damage from starvation. I have plenty of luck with both using it in the very beginning of a mission as well as holding off until later, so it is up to you to decide when to use it, it will work well either way.